Private vs personal, the GOP's sleight of hand tricks.

Do you know the difference between a private social security account and a personal social security account? The polls. Since polling has showed that Bush's scheme to destroy social security gets a better response when he calls them "personal accounts" instead of "private accounts," the label has been changed. And it took all his political and media stooges about half a second to fall in step. Gone is the word "private."

And in typical GOP hypocritic fashion, their stooges are attacking any media person still using the term "private" as being biased, partisan, and engaging in the argument themselves. So, the GOP stepped in shit and expect the media to clean it up for them. They get angry when they don't get a full return (i.e. complete subservience) for their money.

But all this has a silver lining. It shows that the general public understands what privatization really means. It means gutting the quality of something. But it also means American must be on watch for other euphamisms. As in "liberating the Iraqi people" actually means "looting the Iraqi people's oil reserves." But some things just take time to explain.